John Dilson Movies

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to...

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations....

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local...

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a...

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter...

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as...

Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.